it's in the garage and boy do i need help...

[Tommy345]

There are three MWB cruisers at West Coast Off Road, one belongs to my dad, another my brother and the third is for sale

 

[outdoordan]

Looking good outdoordan what did old mate do under the bonnet. ?

God alone knows.

Do you have any diagrams of re-assembling the engine bay? Inner wings, outer wings etc?

Cheers Oz.

OD

 

[outdoordan]

There are three MWB cruisers at West Coast Off Road, one belongs to my dad, another my brother and the third is for sale

Got any pics Tommy?

 

[StarCruiser]

If the worst comes to the worst Dan, that plastic window might clean up with some plastic polish and a lot of elbow grease (or a machine polisher). What a numpty. It didn't belong to my father in law by any chance? He could fcuk up a cannon ball!!

 

[outdoordan]

Latest pics.

Alexy... theres one of the AC pipes exiting the bulkhead. I didn't get your PM... but If you want the AC set up its yours... would you be able to help me track some spares down?

I had a good look at the front axle tonight. Can anyone tell me exactly what is shot? Knuckle oil seals?

Cheers

OD

 

[alexy]

Ill let the more experienced to share, but axle looks like inner seals are gone and you get diff oil comming out.
If you service that, make sure you check/renew the kingpin bearings too.

as for ac unit, that is not original by the looks of it.

I have my truck nearby, happy to sent pics of engine compartment if that helps, but mine is lj, not bj

as for dash board, try contacting Iwan_24 here on forum, I bought a spare one from him. he gave me a few odd/rare parts , hes was of great help!

hes building a bj73 I think he has the front wings in place.

 

[outdoordan]

How difficult to do inner oil seals? Had a quick look at the manual last night. There seem to be a lot of special tools involved.

 

[ozcruiser]

God alone knows.

Do you have any diagrams of re-assembling the engine bay? Inner wings, outer wings etc?

Cheers Oz.

OD

No nothing under bonnet type photo's but should be all Lego type stuff and will fall in place once you start fitting back together. If you get stuck on anything let me know and can take a few pics off my truck but 12ht is nothing like yours.

 

[Ben]

How difficult to do inner oil seals? Had a quick look at the manual last night. There seem to be a lot of special tools involved.

Its not a simple 5 minute job and is in fact one of the jobs I hate doing the most as its quite messy!

Theres no point just replacing the leaking inner oil seals as its quite a big job to even do that, so as others have said you should replace the kingpin bearings while your at it and ideally the wheel bearings as well. If you dont replace the wheel bearings you should at least clean them up and re-grease them.

Only specialist tools you really need are a 54mm hub socket, torque wrench, spring scale (fishing scale). A brass drift is useful for getting the cone washers out and having a proper seal fitting tool helps but isnt essential.

I'd recommend following the instructions in the factory service manual to the dot and only use genuine seals and Koyo bearings.

Allow at least half a day and take the drain plug out on the diff the night before and leave it to drain overnight.

For a full front axle overhaul your going to need:

Grease
Diff oil
Inner and outer oil seals
King pin bearings
Wheel bearings
Free wheeling hub's gaskets,

You can but complete kits with all the bearings and gaskets in and that usually works out cheaper, but check their Koyo bearings and order genuine oil seals from Toyota.

 

[outdoordan]

Ben thats awesome information. Seriously. Thank you.

Local mechanic who I use for work that I dont have the tools/ramp etc for reckoned about three hours per side.

But (horrible job notwithstanding) I'd quite like to do it myself.

Thanks again.

OD

 

[Ben]

Its good if you learn to do it yourself as then you know how to tighten or change a wheel bearing if one fails on you sometime.

Its not a difficult job to do if you follow the instructions in the FSM. Do you have copies of the FSM's?

They are all available in PDF form, juts click on the Downloads option at the top of the forum.

It is messy though, no escaping that!

You will also need:

Some latex gloves, lots of rags, a box/tray that you can chuck all the bits in and some petrol to wash all the grease and oil off with, a stiff brush/old tooth brush will help with this.

Something else I forgot to mention before is threadlock. You need to threadlock the bolts that hold the kingpin caps on as they can and do work loose.

And one final thing...................

You may wish to replace the swivel ball seals while its all apart. They consist of a piece of felt and a piece of rubber, both of which surround the balls and are held in position with 2 metal strips.

 

[bigmac]

just did that job last month... damp carpet on the drivers side floor, tried many of the cooling quick fixs radweld , few eggs ... the outcome was a messy smelly omelette carpet... so started with tackling the dash and quickly came to a standstill and just ripped out the ac unit & like you said I installed 6 inch pipe between fan and the blower plastic hosing behind the dash, heater matrix elbow was cracked where it goes from bulkhead to engine bay ... main cause was engine vibration the actual matrix itself was 100%.
So anyways welded the elbow and all back together in few hours really is very straight forward fix if you do away with the ac unit,if you require to keep the ac unit in your jeep then pretty much every nut n bolt will need to be removed from the dash to get to the matrix itself... sorry meant to say the model lj78 2.4 auto engine, just installed a intercooler last week I should post the photos for others to tackle it sometime...

 

[outdoordan]

Progress... nearly finished

 

[outdoordan]

Boom-shanka!

 

[ozcruiser]

She's looking good mate well done.

 

[outdoordan]

cheers Oz

 

[Robert Tatian]

Hey Brotha, you were helping me out with finding some parts for my FJ75 1990. I need a speedometer, do you know where I can find one? Im from California